A Christian college is permitting professors to have same-sex relationships--at least for the next six months. Trustees at Eastern Mennonite University, a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), unanimously voted to let president Loren Swartzendruber lead the school through a "listening period" to review its current ban. During that time, tenure-track faculty will not be penalized for violating current policies which restricts sexual relationships to marriage between one man and one woman.Personally this is upsetting on two counts: First, I was employed at the largest school in the CCCU from 2002 to 2009, and it is also where I completed my undergraduate degree. This will probably become a watershed event for a watershed issue within CCCU schools. Second, my spiritual heritage (fraternal side of the family) is Mennonite.
I'm not sure where CT gleaned their information regarding tenure-track faculty not being penalized during this six month "listening period" . . . it may be implicit, but nothing is explicitly mentioned in the article from November/2013 at EMU's website. I'm somewhat shocked EMU's original post had open comments. The comments, however, were closed by the "Moderator" after only two days . . . they said they wanted to listen, but not just quite yet. ;)
